Ellen G. White
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Jacob’s Trouble: A Time of Testing Before Christ’s Return
God’s people enter an experience of deep spiritual heart- searching and self- examination, tightening their grip on God’s grace, and not their own good works, as their only hope. Each one sees their life of sin and feels their unworthiness before God, but the Holy Spirit impresses upon them a sense of God’s acceptance and love. Their…
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New Heaven and Earth: God’s Promise of Eternal Restoration
As the earth is cleansed by fire, the saints abide safely in the city of God, the New Jerusalem. The trauma of the whole ordeal, including the destruction of the wicked, is so overwhelming that the righteous are weeping. But God, who is perfect with empathetic love, “will wipe away every tear from their eyes”…
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New Jerusalem: When Heaven Descends and Evil Ends
At the conclusion of the Millennium, the New Jerusalem, and inhabited by the righteous of all ages, descends to the earth. The wicked of all ages are resurrected. Satan picks up where he left off before the second coming of Christ. He deceives the wicked with the promise that under his leadership, they can take…
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Mercy and Justice: How God Balances Grace with Righteousness
Through Jesus, God’s mercy was manifested to men; but mercy does not set aside justice. The law reveals the attributes of God’s character, and not a jot or a tittle of it could be changed to meet in his fallen condition. God did not change His law, but He sacrificed Himself, in Christ, for man’s redemption. “God…
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Sinai and Calvary: The Riven Rock of Law and Grace
When God spoke the law from Sinai, that living stream of water, which gushed forth from the smitten rock in Horeb, was still flowing. If it had ceased to flow, the Israelites would have been in as bad condition as before, for it was their only water supply, their only hope of life. It was from…
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Spiritual Growth: Building on the Foundation of God’s Government
The ten commandments on the two tables of stone were in the ark, under the mercy seat, showing that the law of God is the basis of His throne and government. “The Lord reigns; Let the earth rejoice let the multitude of isles be glad thereat. Clouds and darkness are round about Him; righteousness and judgment…
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Spiritual Transformation: From Splinters to Jewels in Christ
If Christ is in you “the hope of glory,” you will have no disposition to watch others, to expose their errors. Instead of seeking to accuse and condemn, it will be your object to help, to bless, and to save. In dealing with those who are in error, you will heed the injunction, Consider, “yourself,…
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The Work of the Holy Spirit in Our Lives: Guiding and Transforming
Pray that the mighty energies of the Holy Spirit, with all their quickening, recuperative, and transforming power, may fall like an electric shock on the palsy-stricken soul, causing every nerve to thrill with new life, restoring the whole man from his dead, earthly, sensual state to spiritual soundness. You will thus become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped…
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Sons of God: Sharing in the Life and Nature of the Father
Not those whose hearts are touched by the Spirit, not those who now and then yield to its power, but they that are led by the Spirit, they that build wisely, sharing the life of God, are the sons of God. Build wisely on the sure foundation of God’s Word. Do you desire to become a…
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Price of Redemption: God’s Sacrifice and the Cost of Grace
God suffered with His Son. In the agony of Gethsemane, the death of Calvary, the heart of Infinite Love paid the price of our redemption…. Nothing less than the Infinite Sacrifice made by Christ in behalf of fallen man could express the Father’s love to lost humanity…. It is from the Father’s heart that the streams of divine…
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God’s Love: Our Father Cares and Gives the Greatest Gift
Jesus pointed His hearers to the Ruler of the universe, under the new name, “Our Father.” He would have them understand how tenderly the heart of God yearned over them. He teaches that God cares for every lost soul; that “like as a father pities his children, so the Lord pities them that fear Him.” Psalm 103:13.…
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Power of the Cross – A Simple Story of Redemption and Hope
“Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.” This prayer is appropriate for every soul, and at any time and in every place may be offered to God in the name and through the merit of Christ. The thought that God can take a poor, sinful, sorrowful human…
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Practical Preaching – Delivering Sermons That Transform Lives
Inspired by love for Christ and for the souls for whom He has died they feel an intense earnestness to act their part with fidelity and preach quiet sermons of practical godliness. Selfishness is the strongest and most general of human impulses, the struggle of the soul between sympathy and covetousness is an unequal contest;…
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Book of Malachi – Message for God’s People Today
“Honor the Lord with thy substance and with the first fruits of all thine increase; so, shall thy barns be filled with plenty and thy presses shall burst out with new wine.” Proverbs 3: 9, 10 “There is that scatters and yet increases and there is that withholds more than his meat, but it tends…
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Coworkers with God – Our Role in His Mission and Purpose
“Honor the Lord with thy substance, and with the first fruits of all thine increase: so shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine.” Proverbs 3:9, 10. “There is that scatters, and yet increases; and there is that withholds more than is meet, but it tends to poverty.…
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God’s Plan – What Comes After Israel’s Failure?
It was God’s plan that the children of Israel, the seed of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob were to live, share and spread the good news of the Creator of the universe to the entire world. Sadly this purpose was never fully met until the incarnation, the coming of the Messiah, the Son of God, Jesus…
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Time of Trouble: End-Time Events and God’s Promise of Deliverance
As the mark of the beast is enforced, “there shall be a time of trouble such as never was since there was a nation, even to that time. And at that time your people shall be delivered, everyone who is found written in the book.” Jesus also warned of the same: “For then there will…